You dared touch my people... did you ask me first?

In an instant, the Yunmo Star Ship passed through the dazzling energy vortex and truly entered the Nether God Secret Realm.

The moment he entered, Hu Yanbo felt his surroundings change abruptly!

The Nether God Secret Realm was a small secret realm roughly a hundred thousand light-years across, comparable in size to an ordinary galaxy.

Yet its internal environment was nothing like the tranquil starry skies outside!

The first thing he felt was the incredibly dense and violent universe origin energy!

The energy here was far more concentrated than outside. Even a single breath made his divine body feel slightly warm. But precisely because the energy was so immense and had never been regulated, it was exceptionally chaotic and restless, requiring much more mental effort to absorb and refine.

Next, everywhere he looked, rather than empty starry skies, countless visible whirlwinds of cosmic energy drifted wildly like colorful silk ribbons!

These whirlwinds were formed from highly concentrated cosmic energy particles moving at tremendous speeds. Their power was terrifying. An ordinary World Lord caught in one would likely be torn to pieces in an instant.

Standing in the void, Hu Yanbo stored the Yunmo Star Ship in his World Ring with a thought.

A layer of concentrated space law ripples naturally flowed around him. The violent cosmic whirlwinds struck it, only to be diverted and dispersed, unable to shake him in the slightest.

Public Cosmic Secret Realms were unlike the secret realms within Human Territory that had been regulated and reshaped by Universe Masters.

The environment here remained primordial and chaotic, filled with all manner of unpurified cosmic dust, turbulent energy, and spatial impurities.

This chaotic environment severely disrupted spatial stability, making it impossible for ships to travel through the Dark Universe.

"The Dark Corrosion Cavern is still quite a distance from here..." Hu Yanbo sensed a spatial fluctuation far away.

"To get there as quickly as possible, I can only rely on Teleportation!"

"I hope Marquis Rock... can hold on a little longer!"

Whoosh!

Hu Yanbo vanished from his original position, appearing above a shattered continent the next instant.

The space turbulence here was even more violent than at the entrance.

But Hu Yanbo had no time to spare even a glance at the secret realm's wondrous sights. He continued sensing his next coordinates.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

His figure flickered furiously through this chaotic expanse. Each time he appeared, he remained for only an instant before blurring and vanishing again.

Every teleport carried him more than one light-year!

Fortunately, among the many public Cosmic Secret Realms, the Nether God Secret Realm had a relatively low danger rating.

Otherwise, Hu Yanbo would never have dared to teleport so recklessly and frequently.

Elsewhere, deep within the Dark Corrosion Cavern, lay a complex area filled with enormous crystal clusters and twisting passages.

Boom! Crack-!

A figure wrapped in thick, earthen-yellow light slammed like a meteor into an enormous cluster of dark purple crystals. The terrifying impact instantly shattered countless hard crystals!

The figure staggered to her feet. It was Marquis Rock!

Her battle armor was badly damaged, golden divine blood seeped from the corner of her mouth, her aura fluctuated violently, and her eyes were filled with exhaustion.

"Marquis Rock! Let's see where you can run now!"

Before those words faded, a suffocating wave of savage malice swept toward her!

An enormous crystal pillar ahead exploded. Amid the flying debris, a colossal creature revealed itself!

It was several dozen meters long, covered in dark red scales, and resembled a giant lizard, but with a pair of vicious curved horns and a long tail studded with bone spikes-Blood Fang King!

An Initial King immortal from the demon race's camp!

Its enormous vertical pupils gleamed with cruelty and greed, fixed unwaveringly on Marquis Rock.

Drool dripped from its huge, fang-filled mouth, corroding the ground with a sizzling hiss.

"The demon race... Blood Fang King!" Marquis Rock gritted her teeth and gripped her battle shield with both hands as law secret patterns continually emerged across its surface.

The Dark Corrosion Cavern's unique internal environment severely interfered with divine sense probing, and she also possessed formidable defensive abilities.

Only through those advantages had Marquis Rock managed to hold out against Blood Fang King repeatedly, escaping death time and again.

But this time, it seemed there was nowhere left to run!

"Roar! Die!" Blood Fang King let out a deafening roar and tore through space in an instant. Its long, bone-spiked tail lashed viciously toward Marquis Rock like a blood-colored steel whip tearing apart the heavens, carrying enough power to crush stars!

"Rock Wall Bastion!" Marquis Rock roared, and the battle shield in her hands erupted with an unprecedentedly dense radiance.

Boom-!!!

An immense, solid wall of dark yellow crystal instantly formed in front of her!

It consisted of countless layers of incredibly dense yellow-black earth crystal, tightly interlocked. Ancient, intricate tortoiseshell patterns emerged across the wall, their lines flowing with light as heavy as the origin of the earth itself.

The instant the crystal wall appeared, even the chaotic space around it seemed suppressed by this ultimate law power, growing somewhat stagnant!

But in the next instant, that devastating, blood-colored, bone-spiked whip struck the crystal wall with tremendous force!

Crack!!!

Rumble-!!!

The dark yellow crystal wall trembled violently, instantly becoming covered in cobweb-like cracks. Countless crystal fragments imbued with origin law power exploded outward, blasting the surrounding hard rock walls and crystal clusters full of holes!

A terrifying shock wave spread outward in a ring, shaking the entire cavern structure until it hummed and whipping up still more debris and turbulent energy!

Behind the crystal wall, Marquis Rock shuddered as though struck by a tremendous blow. The armor covering her shield-bearing arms shattered completely, and golden divine blood sprayed from the gaps in her armor.

The ground beneath her collapsed into an enormous crater, yet she kept her shield firmly braced, refusing to retreat even half a step!

That crystal wall, on the verge of shattering, had withstood the blow!

Yet it was already at the end of its strength!

The next attack would destroy the bastion completely!

"I'll crush you!" Blood Fang King roared, burning its divine power. Its enormous body closed in again, and its huge claw tore through the void, descending toward her head with thick, bloodthirsty malice!

Marquis Rock was also burning her divine power. Feeling the divine power within her rapidly depleting, and Blood Fang King's undisguised, savage strength, despair flashed through her eyes.

"Radiance..." The image of her companion, now gravely wounded and unconscious inside her World Ring, flashed through her mind. Then she remembered that plea for help she had sent. "Hu Yanbo..."

A trace of bitterness spread through Marquis Rock's heart.

She had already done everything she could, holding out against this savage demon King Rank immortal and fleeing for an entire half day!

For that half day, every minute and every second had been like dancing on a knife's edge, burning away her divine body and her will.

She had thought that after sending that message, if reinforcements really were available, they should have arrived long ago...

Half a day. It's already been half a day... Marquis Rock's heart went cold.

If Hu Yanbo really had a King Rank friend in the Nether God Secret Realm, they should have reached me by now.

If no one has come yet, perhaps...

Perhaps that message had disappeared without a trace, and Hu Yanbo had never seen it!

Perhaps Hu Yanbo was just as helpless, unable to persuade a King Rank immortal to come!

Perhaps... her only hope had been nothing but an illusion she had conjured in her desperation.

Marquis Rock looked at Blood Fang King, whose savage aura towered before her, and knew there was no chance of survival.

She drew a deep breath. A final flicker of madness flashed through her eyes, and she began burning her remaining divine power without restraint!

Even if I die, I'll knock out a few of your teeth!

Yet just as Blood Fang King's enormous claw was about to fall, and Marquis Rock prepared to make her final, desperate stand-

Something suddenly changed!

A section of the cavern ceiling above exploded without warning!

An incomparably sharp streak of black light, carrying overwhelming killing intent and urgency, smashed through layer upon layer of rock and forced its way onto the battlefield!

An icy voice rang through the entire cavern like thunder:

"Demon scum! You dared touch my people... did you ask me first?!"